EMS Manual

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Distributor Commands and
Responses
This section describes the command and response messages for the consumer,
printing, and forwarding distributors. For descriptions of commands for the compatibility
distributor, which is controlled through the EMS collector, see Section 19, Collector
Commands and Responses.
The commands described here are mainly used to:

Manage consumer, printing, and forwarding distributors from a management
application

Add, alter, or delete specified object types (for example, distributor filters, event
sources, and event destinations)

Retrieve event messages
Topic Page
Extended Programmatic Interface
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Object Support Summary 17-3
Common Definitions for ZCOM- Commands 17-5
Common Definitions for ZEMS- Commands 17-9
Distributor Command Descriptions 17-12
Table 17-1. Distributor Commands Summary (page 1 of 2)
Command Name Description
ZCOM-CMD-ADD
*
Adds filters, event sources, and event destinations
(textouts).
ZCOM-CMD-ALTER
*
Alters distributor attributes, replaces filter parameters, and
replaces the forwarding target collector.
ZEMS-CMD-CONTROL Changes the operational environment of a distributor.
CONTROL can change the source of event messages (and
the position within the source at which the distributor begins
its examination of event messages), the filter and filter
parameters, and the destinations of event messages that
pass the filter. The CONTROL command can be replaced by
the ZCOM-ADD, -ALTER, and -DELETE commands, which
support the extended interface.
ZCOM-CMD-DELETE
*
Deletes filters, event sources, and event destinations
(textouts).
* Command supports the extended programmatic interface. (All have a ZCOM- prefix.)